Volume IVIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. - Thursday, October 24, 1974
Number 4 7
YGets It Together
By Patt Hall
Whit’s getting it together on
Xis thfs tali’The YWCA. And
ave they got activities planned
fnrvou Participation is the key,
„d their plans call for getting
' people involved. For my
II at Salem the “Y-
eenied to just exist, not realty
doing much of anything. Well, the
tide has turned and this year’s
cabinet has a whole host of pro
jects going. Also, meetings are
not just for cabinet members,
they are open to everyone. They
meet every Monday night in the
Day Student Center at 6:30. Join
in and lend a hand.' All are wel
come to bring their ideas. First on
the agenda is the “Chaplains Tea”
on 24 October. This will be an in
formal gathering of local min
isters to chat with students over
refreshments. It will be held in
Strong Friendship Rooms start
ing at 4:30. Plan to share with us.
Incunabula Workshop Stimulates Writers
A/Irs. Kimzey Promotes Much Enthusiasm For Poetry
Halloween finishes up this month
month and the “Y” is sponsoring
a party for a local orphanage.
They plan to start in the square
with a spook house and goblin
games (all available goblins
please register with the “Y”).
Then the kids move on to trick-
or-treat in the dorms. What the
dorm does is up to the individual
dorm, so check with your dorm
president to help out with that.
In November comes the “Y
Auction.” All you upper classmen
need to let the freshmen in on
what happens. Each of the faculty
and staff put up something to sell,
be it supper or mountain trips or
handmade specialties. It is defi
nitely fun and fattening. And the
money goes to the World Uni
versity Service for providing
education funds in underpriviledg-
ed icountries. This year’s goal is
$800. Keep a look-out for date and
place.
ABC tickets are now being sold
by The YWCA and WRA. For
those of you that haven’t heard,
these little pieces of paper you
buy for $1.25 will get you into any
$2.00 or $2.25 movie at the Win
ston, Thruway, Carolina, or
Thunderbird Drive-in theatres.
They are good for one year, so
buy your tickets now from your
dorm representative — there
should be four in each dorm.
Other projects in the making
are many. The Youth for Easter
Seals is getting underway in
IStoston-Salem. They look to be
ginning a recreational program
for the orthopedically handi-
capped. Thus they are in great
need of volunteers. A scheduled
orientation meeting for 29 October
will be at First Baptist Church.
For information and participation,
see Brooks Skinner or Mary Lou
Cunningham. Working for the Red
Cross and filling stockings for dis
advantaged children are on their
1st. Also they hope to support
he Hunger Drive by giving up
desserts one day. All of these
Pans sound good, but can’t be-
™nie a reality without your help
and participation. Donate some of
your free time to make the YWCA
d Club that is doing something
orthwhile. It is Salem’s service
d . so do it and yourself a ser-
‘de by lending a hand.
th^°V the final matches to
m! t singles tennis tourna-
^ent Will be played Tuesday 29
dtober starting at 12:30. Tro-
Phies will be given at that time.
tL .''ydde come on down to see
cniiVi Sweats battle on the new
courts.
After the writer’s workshop,
held last week by Incunabula, the
participants not only felt that they
had learned something, but also
that they had made a friend.
Ardis Kimzey, a poet from Ra
leigh, set a relaxed and enjoyable
mood at both workshops — the
one for writing and the one for
teaching children to write poetry.
Mrs. Kimzey began on Friday
by discussing her own approach
to her work. She read some of her
most recent poems and supplied
some insight into their creation.
Two important suggestions to the
students were to read poetry as
much as possible and to keep a
notebook of lines, images, and
ideas that could become poems
someday.
As a woman, Mrs. Kimzey is
very interested in other woman
poets. Southern Poetry Review,
of which she is an associate edit
or, did a special issue last year of
poetry by women. Anne Sexton
was one in a group of women
poets from which Mrs. Kimzey
read on Friday. She stressed the
many possibilities for subject
matter and the importance of find
ing a voice within oneself.
After suggesting a few “little”
magazines to which students
might successfully submit their
poetry, Mrs. Kimzey led the group
in a consideration of the poems
written by several participants in
the workshop. Her main points
were the necessity of avoiding
vague abstractions and strained
poetic language. Mrs. Kimzey
seemed generally pleased by the
quality of the work done by
Salem students.
Saturday offered a different
focus of attention. Mrs. Kimzey
has been quite active in teaching
children to write poetry, so she
adopted for her format a basic
outline of one week of teaching
and the main impressions she
hopes to leave. Her consideration
spanned from first grade to sen
iors in high school.
The first task is to get to know
the students. She tells them about
herself and answers questions
they might have about her three
boys, her husband, her dogs, or
how much money she gets for
selling a poem. Mrs. Kimzey just
chuckles at the last one. She
tries to transmit their enthusiasm
for an interrupted routine to one
for poetry.
Children often have a stereo
typed view of poetry, so Mrs.
Kimzey begins by reading to them
several poems from anthologies
of contemporary poetry. She as
sured her listeners that such titles
as “A Monkey” and “Reflections
on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle”
always bring excited cries of “I
know THAT’S not in there!” from
her students.
The sounds of words and the
mixing of senses are areas in
which Mrs. Kimzey concentrates.
She travels from school to school
laden with records, seashells,
books, snakeskins, slides, a tape
recorder, and of course a type
writer. “Children love the poems
they write, and they love to see
them in print.” Each day the
poems that have been written are
typed and copied for distribution
the next day. Mrs. Kimzey uses
student poetry whenever she can
in teaching. “Children get so ex
cited when they read what their
classmates have written. Some
times I don’t see the attraction,
but they have a special way of
communicating with each other.”
Mrs. Kimzey ended the work
shop by expressing her wish that
the students would be able to use
some of her suggestions in their
own classrooms as well as con
tinuing to write themselves. The
students all seemed to enjoy the
new knowledge they had acquired
as well as the company of such a
warm, delightful visiting poet.
Some people will do anything
for a little “candy.”
Announcement
By Betty Massie
For Edgar Allen Poe enthus
iasts, there will be a series of
excerpts from his various novels
presented here at Salem. The
New York Touring Company is
performing October 22, 1974 at
8:00 P.M. in Hanes Auditorium.
The production is titled “Poe:
From his Life and Mind” and
promises to be interesting and
informative.
Pierrettes Open
50th Season
On Halloween
By Marilyn Mycoff
On Halloween night the Pierrette
Players open their 50th season
with a very unique and unusual
production. They will be present
ing “The Story Theater” by Paul
Sills, a collection of six humorous
fairy tale renditions. Three stu
dent directors, Cindy Parker,
Sally Burnett, and Cindy Logan,
will each be directing two fairy
tales apiece, working with a total
cast of 20 girls.
The special part about the pre
sentation is that the entire thing
is done in pantomime, using no
sets or props. Zel Gilbert, Presi
dent of the Pierrette Players, has
concluded that the difficult but
enjoyable aspect of pantomime is
that, “It involves enough exag-
eration to make it funny but not
unrealistic.”
To help develop characters and
to create the color and contrast
needed, costume head Jane Elliott
has decided to use leotards as
everyone’s basic costume, and
then join bright headpieces and
make-up to produce animals,
birds, and people. Zel Gilbert also
added, “By eliminating the use o
set and by using costumes that
force the audience to use their
imagination, all of the emphasis
is on the comical nature of each
character.”
Under the advice and super
vision of Dr. Mary Homrighous,
the crews and players have been
rehearsing each night and having
work days on Tuesday afternoons
and Wednesday nights. Much is
still to be done before opening
night, and the Players need all the
help anyone can give them on
those work days.
The show will be running Octo
ber 31, November 1, 2, 3, vnth
evening performances at 8:00. Be
cause the drama productions are
financed by our SGA fees, the play
tickets will be free to all students
and faculty and only 50 cents for
dates and one dollar for parents.
The tickets will be on sale in the
refectory at lunch, as well as at
the box office during the nights of
the show.
As soon as “The Story Theater”
is over, the Pierrette Players will
begin work on their next produc
tion, Shakespeare’s “A Midsum
mer Night’s Dream.” Also the
dramatic fraternity on campus.
Alpha Psi Omega, will be con
ducting a reader’s theater later in
the semester. There is much to
look forward to from the Salem
drama department.
Nature Favors Female Survival
Callahan Receives
Leadership Award
Dr. Daniel Callahan, one of the
three lecturers at Salem’s April
10-11, 1974 symposium on “A Mat
ter of Life and Death,” was
chosen in the July 15, 1974 issue
of Time magazine as one of
America’s top 200 young leaders.
Among the criteria for choice was
an age limit of 45 and civil or
social impact in some field. The
men could either have had signifi
cant accomplishments or simply
show the promise of future lead
ership. Dr. Callahan, 43, founded
in 1969 the Institute of Society,
Ethics and the Life Sciences in
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
The Institute’s primary concern
is that “mankind’s social and sci
entific skills are developing in a
moral and ethical vacuum. The
84 members of this Institute ern-
phasize policy-making in genetic
engineering, behavior and popula
tion control. Via conferences,
newsletters, and legislative hear
ings. In the August 5, 1974 Time,
a letter to the editor from Dr.
Callahan appeared. He was flat
tered at being chosen a rising
leader but refuted Time’s state
ment that he had written articles
By Arnieze C. Douthit
In our American society, wom
an’s status is subordinate to that
of man. Females are socialized
from birth to be passive, submis
sive, and dependent. The Bible
even warns: “Wives, be subject to
your husbands in all things.” But
data from nature itself suggests
that the female form is favored in
terms of survival capacity.
Although many more male than
female fetuses are conceived, the
ratio being approximately 190:130
respectively, more male fetuses
are aborted. So many changes are
needed to produce a male from
an essentially female body. Thus,
there is an abundance of malfor
mations in the process.
Studies have shown that pre
mature males have a higher
fatality rate than their female
counterparts. And male children
are more likely to be prone to
sickness than female children.
The Y chromosome which is re
sponsible for determining the
male sex of a fetus is believed to
be at the root of many male dis
orders. These are bark-like skin,
dense hairy growth on the ears,
keratoma (hard lesions) of the
hands and feet, and webbing of
the second and third toes.
Being female usually exempts
one from the possibility of having
such disorders. The X chromo
some, which determines female
ness, has more protective genes
than its Y counterpart. Such ill-
on divorce and celibacy. In the
letter. Dr. Callahan stressed his
stand on abortion. He advocates
the legalization of abortion during
the first trimester but hopes that
women will not “on moral
grounds” make use of such a
legal freedom.
Su.i'IM COLLEGE LL
nesses as hem.ophilia and color
blindness are passed only from
mother to son, because a daughter
has the protection of the X
chromosome.
The life expectation of the fe
male at birth is almost universal
ly higher than that of the male. In
Britain, life expectation at birth
is 74.8 years for females, but 68.1
for males; in China it is 65.6 and
61.3 respectively; in Brazil, 45.5
and 41.8 (1967 figures). Does this
not suggest to us that the female
has a superior capacity for sur
vival?
In addition to the previously
discussed findings, women are
less likely to die from accidents
in the home, which in most West
ern countries is now the leading
cause of death in people under the
age of forty-five. In almost all age
groups, mortality from domestic
accidents is greater in the male
sex. One expert has calculated
that generally the male risk of
death in domestic accidents is 2 to
5 times greater than that of the
female.
At every stage in life, beginning
with conception, more males die
than females. A recent study of
women smokers prepared by the
American Cancer Society shows
that there is actually a sex dif
ference in resistance to the effects
of tobacco on health. Females are
constitutionally more resistant to
tobacco effects.
I suggest to you, then, that the
dominating, competitive, courage
ous stereotyping of the male sex
is inconsistent with the data that
I have presented. Without woman,
there would be no man. And
equality of the sexes should be
important to each and every vic
tim of the myth of male super
iority. (Information from Ashley
Montague, The Natural Superior
ity of Woman, Ann Oakley, Sex,
Gender and Society, and Clarice
Stasz Stoll, Female and Male.
iyAKY